Author: Koen Mariën

It has been very quiet in this blog series. There’s only one reason: deployment was a more than fulltime occupation. Time for writing was never more scarce. Today the big rush is over and I can find some time to reflect on the past few weeks. Student preparation As I mentioned in the previous post,“A Learning Device for Every Student – Part V – Ready? Go!”

In this fourth part of this series, I’d like to talk about the technical side of the deployment. You will not need to ben a system engineer to read the following; I’ll try to keep it as comprehensible as possible. Planning is key When managing several hundred iPad devices, planning thoroughly is essential. I have“A Learning Device For Every Student – Part IV – Roll-out scenarios”

These days digital portfolios are a hot topic. They give students the ability be authentic authors and document their learning journey. One of the simplest ways to build a digital portfolio is a blog. But don’t be mistaken: a blog can also be one of the most powerful tools a student can have to tell“Why Every Teacher Should Blog”

From vision to reality In my last post, I already focused heavily on why we think every student should have a personal learning device. Read more about it here. The very first step was figuring out how we would conduct the decision making of the project. Was this up to the school board of directors?“A Learning Device For Every Student – Part II, Scenarios”

The iTunes U catalogue contains some fabulous lesson ideas made by Apple Distinguished Educators.At the ADE Global Institute in San Diego last summer we were asked to design one great course to publish to iTunes U. In the last weeks these courses are coming available here. Yesterday I received a very nice message saying that my“iTunes U courses by ADEs (and me too!)”